$249 million can buy a lot of things more fitting for our community than a stadium

6:34 PM,
Sep. 29, 2012

Written by

Anne Macdonald
Soapbox

This is what $249 million looks like: $249,000,000. That's the number of zeros we can look forward to with our new stadium. Of course, it will really look more like this: $450,000,000, or this: $500,000,000. With a bit of bonded debt we can probably look forward to this: $1,000,000,000.

What better way could we spend all those zeros? Anything that might move us forward as humans, that might complement our scientific capacity, that matches our values as a new-energy, biomass, natural resource, sustainability community?